Fwd: WebAPI Discovery Community Group Launched

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> 
> From: public-council@w3.org
> Subject: WebAPI Discovery Community Group Launched
> Date: December 13, 2016 at 6:13:59 AM CST
> To: "Ivan Goncharov" <ivan.goncharov.ua@gmail.com>, "Mike Ralphson" <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>, "Roman Hotsiy" <gotsijroman@gmail.com>, "Jesse van Dam" <jesse.vandam@wur.nl>, "Mohamed ZERGAOUI" <innovimax+w3c@gmail.com>, "Cc:public-council"@w3.org
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> 
> With your support, the WebAPI Discovery Community Group has been launched:
>  http://www.w3.org/community/web-api-discovery/
> 
> This group was originally proposed on 2016-12-01
> by Ivan Goncharov. The following people supported its
> creation: 
>      Ivan Goncharov
>      Mike Ralphson
>      Roman Hotsiy
>      Jesse van Dam
>      Mohamed ZERGAOUI
> 
> To join the group, please use:
> http://www.w3.org/community/web-api-discovery/join
> 
> Please note that supporting a group is different from joining
> a group. Supporters must also enroll if they wish to participate.
> 
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> A group to develop a mechanism for the automatic discovery of WebAPIs,
> by
> extending the schema.org vocabulary.
> 
> 
> Increasingly, large online platforms and services provide one or more
> Web
> APIs for third-party developers. Moreover, many companies build WebAPIs
> as
> their primary product (Email API, SMS API, etc.). This has resulted in
> an
> explosion of the number of WebAPIs in recent years. Developers spend a
> significant amount of time searching for suitable WebAPIs to meet their
> needs.
> 
> 
> Our intention is to work closely with Schema.org to define a
> WebAPI-specific extension and promote usage of this extension among API
> owners. In the long run, our aim is to contribute this extension into
> the
> core Schema.org vocabulary.
> 
> 
> To achieve these goals we are seeking feedback and collaboration from
> API
> owners, DX specialists, API description language experts and maintainers
> of
> various API catalogs.
> 
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> 
> Thank you,
> 
> W3C Community Development Team
>